282 SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY 



the diseases of which we die, are all repeated proofs 

 of the constancy of law, of the faithfulness of the 

 deeds of God. 



However science may conceive of cause and 

 effect, whether in terms of matter, or in terms of 

 force, or in terms of Deity, the fact remains that 

 for two or three thousand years all the great thinkers 

 of the world have found laws in the universe, and 

 have spent their best powers in understanding and 

 applying them. However science may interpret 

 the uniformity of law in things great and small — 

 in moons and microbes, in suns and cells — still the 

 fact remains that science preaches and teaches uni- 

 formity of law with no uncertain sound, and that 

 on uniformity of law are based the equanimity and 

 progress of modern civilisation. 



And lo and behold ! at the end of the nineteenth 

 century there appears in America a woman called 

 Mrs Eddy, who coolly proceeds to subvert both 

 science and philosophy. An illiterate woman, with 

 a history of hysteria, with no knowledge either of 

 science or of philosophy, with no mental training of 

 any kind, with no particular intellectual capacity, she 

 writes a book which every accredited scientific and 

 philosophic expert in the world knows to be preten- 

 tious nonsense, and yet such are the credulity and 

 ignorance of mankind that she has made not only 

 a large fortune but also thousands of converts. 



